Title: New Video Appears to Show Cops Planting Crack in Innocent Man’s Car After Brutally Beating Him Source:
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On Thursday, the lawyer representing Dent released perhaps an even more sinister video from the evening.
Police originally reported that the blood on his brain, broken orbital bone, and four broken ribs inflicted upon Dent came about as they acted in self-defense. They even went so far as to charge the retired grandfather with resisting arrest, assault on an officer, and fleeing police. All of these charges would ultimately be dropped after the judge watched the video.
However, a possession charge from the evening remained as the officers claimed they found crack cocaine under the passenger seat of the vehicle.
Dent was offered a plea deal that would include probation and expunging his record in six months, but Dent has refused to admit guilt for a crime he did not commit.
Im lucky to be living. I think they was trying to kill me, especially when they had choked me. I mean, I was on my last breath. I kept telling the officer, Please, I cant breathe, Dent said.
After being choked, punched 16 times, and repeatedly tasered- the beaten and bloodied man insisted that the drugs were planted in his car; a claim many might roll their eyes at and call a likely story. Dent was so adamant, however, that he insisted the hospital blood test him. All tests came back as clean as his criminal record.
Dent, in 57 years, had never had a single run in with the law and absolutely no drugs or alcohol were found in his system.
Now, newly released footage appears to prove Dents innocence. It shows the officer who is seen choking Dent in the video, William Robocop Melendez, pull what appears to be a plastic bag filled with a white substance from his pocket before searching the battered mans vehicle.
The video is a bit blurry, and it is difficult to make out for sure what is going on, but a quick glance at Robocops history certainly does not make the image less suspicious.
The former Detroit officer has an extremely long list of offenses, including having been sued at least four times for excessive use of force. He has cost the city more than $1 million in legal settlements and received more citizen complaints than any other in the city, the LA Times reported in 2003.
In one particularly expensive settlement, the officer cost Detroit a million dollars following the fatal shooting of an unarmed man during a traffic stop in 1996. Melendez shot the man execution style 11 times, in front of horrified witnesses.
During a joint investigation by the FBI and Detroit Police Department, he was indicted for corruption, falsifying police reports, and planting drugs/guns on suspects who had been illegally arrested. The officer was somehow acquitted by a jury, despite other police testifying against him.
Some of the allegations in the indictment against Melendez included:
Melendez and two officers illegally arrested Victoria Tillmon on June 16, 2001, outside her home in the 3500 block of Wesson and falsely claimed she dropped a vial of crack cocaine. On the way to the police station, the indictment said, Melendez threatened her, saying that people who testify against him will be killed.
On Feb. 26, 2001, Melendez and two officers illegally entered a residence at 3820 Wesson and illegally searched Clifton White and Shannon White. The officers falsely reported that they confronted the pair on the street and that Clifton White was carrying cocaine.
In a lawsuit filed March 12 in U.S. District Court, a Detroit man accused Melendez and Officer Troy Bradley of concocting a gun case that landed the man in jail for 213 days.
In his lawsuit, Darell Chancellor said Melendez and Bradley arrested him and another man, Robert Louis Blackwell, near midnight on April 22, 2002, on Clippert Street.
The suit says that Melendez and Bradley, after a routine stop, planted handguns that led to federal charges against Chancellor. He was held in jail from April through November last year, until the U.S. Attorneys Office agreed to his release on bond, the suit says. On Nov. 26, the U.S. Attorneys Office asked for charges to be dropped against Chancellor.
Despite prosecutors determining that Robocop led the ring of 17 officers in engaging in corrupt policing, the crooked cop was allowed to keep his job and continue putting lives in danger.
If a bartender is suspected of not washing their hands at a bar, they can be fired for being a health risk.
However, if you have a history of brutality, murder, and corruption, and you are a cop, you keep your job. After all, it only places the lives of the community you work for in your corrupt hands. You plant drugs, beat and execute innocent people because you are a hero, and you just want to make it home to your family every night.
The former Detroit officer has an extremely long list of offenses, including having been sued at least four times for excessive use of force. He has cost the city more than $1 million in legal settlements and received more citizen complaints than any other in the city, the LA Times reported in 2003.
In one particularly expensive settlement, the officer cost Detroit a million dollars following the fatal shooting of an unarmed man during a traffic stop in 1996. Melendez shot the man execution style 11 times, in front of horrified witnesses.
This is why I say we should bond cops on these losses, like a malpractice insurance.
It also demonstrates why I mention regularly how bad cops often move from one jurisdiction to another, fouling up the records of multiple PDs over the years.
This guy should have had his badge taken years ago. Now another bunch of taxpayers will pay off another lawsuit for his obvious criminality.
Like bad priests or bad teachers, you need a way to get the bad apples out of the system a lot sooner.
The law of God is clear: if you bear false witness at a trial, you are to be punished as the person you sought to convict is to be punished.
What is the prison term for possession of cocaine?
In addition to serving time for the corruption, etc, the corrupt cop should explicitly be prosecuted for the false witness charge, and upon conviction, should face the same sentence that the person he accused would face.
This means that cops who plant evidence in murder cases in states where there is capital punishment must be put to death. It means that every perjurer in every capital murder case must also be put to death. It means that every prosecutor who suppresses evidence in every capital murder case must be put to death.
It means, in short, that a single false murder charge, and conspiracy to suppress and falsify evidence, could lead to 15 or 20 executions.
Anybody who testifies in a capital murder case does so under penalty of death: lie and you die.
That is God's law. And the judgments of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
If that's entirely too SCARY, given the degree of corruption and dishonesty among men, then eliminate the death penalty.
If imprisonment for life for perjury or planting evidence in a serious case is too scary, then do not have life imprisonment terms.
It is very simple: whatever the maximum person the accused face, every single person who falsifies evidence, lies or suppresses evidence: all false witnesses are ALL punished with the maximum sentence.
That is the law of God. It is righteous, just and true, and it is MEANT to make the court, and testimony, a terror.
Oh, and if you have evidence, you have no right to remain silence. You must provide it. Remain silent and withhold the evidence that would exonerate, and you have borne false witness under God's law also.
Man has no right to speak lies in cases, and he has no right to remain silence, and there is no executive privilege or sovereign immunity or prosecutorial discretion.
Oh, and under God's law, it's a sin for the police and prosecutors to LIE. LYING is a sin. Liars are condemned to the lake of fire. Jesus says that TWICE. So, police and prosecutors who lie in order to obtain convictions may have just done their job, as defined by men, by Jesus promised to throw them bodily into the flames for it after the resurrection.
The police and prosecutors, for their own safety and for the goodness of the society, should be stripped of the power to lie when conducting investigations.
This means that more criminals will "get away with it". That's true. The alternative is throwing our cops and prosecutors into hell at judgment. God never granted sovereign immunity to anybody. Jesus was King, and HE respected all the laws of God. And therefore when police and prosecutors lie, they are just liars, and damned just as dead as heroin dealers.
Don't like it? Go find another God then, because THIS one didn't give two standards.